Windows 7 brings Microsoft to its knees

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Peter

Mebbe #

Posted Friday 1st May 2009 15:43 GMT

Looks like Microsoft should have tried Bittorrent. All the Linux vendors do it.

Robert Moore

.torrent #

Posted Friday 1st May 2009 15:43 GMT

They just didn't have the bandwidth for that many downloads.

They should have used a torrent for distribution.

Traffic brings down Microsofts servers #

Posted Friday 1st May 2009 19:17 GMT

Haven't I heard that before somewhere?

Christopher Ahrens

It was slow on the corporate network as well #

Posted Friday 1st May 2009 23:05 GMT

Killed the multi-Gig connection off of the Build server too...

lily kudrow

Free Windows 7 Beta Meant To Available #

Posted Sunday 3rd May 2009 09:44 GMT

With Windows 7 set for release in Dec. 09, Microsoft is getting ready with their free upgrade program, which allows Vista users to switch to Windows 7 when it arrives.Buy yourself a copy of Windows Vista after 1 July, and you could qualify for a free upgrade when Microsoft's new operating system ships.Details are sketchy as of this point, but strategically, it is designed to mitigate the number of users who are putting off buying a new computer, because they would rather go directly to Windows 7 from XP, rather than deal with Vista.

http://techunits.com/content/list_all/36/windows7

Anonymous Coward

Tried it and no thanks #

Posted Sunday 3rd May 2009 09:44 GMT

Tried windows 7, while it was a vast improvement on vista, it still is little different in functionality to XP. So to make full use of my I7 64bit computer I have made the leap to Kubuntu and am loving. it. highly recommend people jump to Kubuntu instead of windows 7.

Using Cedega to run the last few windows apps that there isn't native versions of, Works great!, I am actually finding that some of the windows programs are more stable when running under wine/ Cedega that they where on XP or the win 7 beta.

tl;dnr version, Once you go Linux you never go back!

Pierre

Unlike Vista? #

Posted Sunday 3rd May 2009 09:44 GMT

Be patient, the Vista-like effects will be observable only with the final release...

Tux* likes the smell of a new windows release in the morning. It smells like victory.

* Beastie, Puffy, Gnu and other mascots notwithstanding. There is just no icon here for them...

Goat Jam

Wine and stability #

Posted Monday 4th May 2009 07:55 GMT

An AC said "I am actually finding that some of the windows programs are more stable when running under wine"

I too have discovered this. Specifically, I found that the bugfest know as Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion works great. Under XP Oblivion would crash constantly. Unfortunately getting it to work under Wine was a bit of a chore but once it was working it has crashed a whole lot less than it did on XP.

What servers do they use ? #

Posted Monday 4th May 2009 16:24 GMT

In old internet days there was a way to get the identity of the web-server; but nowadays the bigger bottlenect might be cascaded behind a freebsd. Any info on what forms the backbone in the MS network ?

Paris, coz she is frequently on her knees (& elbows) too.

Ken